THE TENNYSON DICTIONARY (continued 7)
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In Scandinavian mythology the warrior nymphs who chose the slain in battle for transportation to Walhalla (q.v.) and who handed to the warriors their drinking-horns at their daily feast with Odin.
The Princess.
VAN DIEMEN.
And show you slips of all that grows From England to Van Diemen.
= the island of Tasmania.
Amphion.
VASHTI.
Wife of king Ahasuerus of Babylon, who was divorced, for refusing to obey the king’s command. Esther i.
The Princess.
VAUNTCOURIER.
A word meaning ‘Forerunner.’
Lover’s Tale.
VAVASOUR (MISS).
A schoolmistress.
Promise of May.
VENICE.
A city and seaport of Italy and capital of the province of Venice.
The Ring; Queen Mary.
VENUS.
In Roman mythology the goddess of love, the queen of laughter, and the mistress of the graces and of pleasures, daughter of Jupiter and Dione, and mother of Cupid. In Greek mythology she is identified with Aphroditè (q.v.). She is represented as presiding over flower-gardens and vines, and is worshipped by gardeners, vine-growers and florists. She had a temple built in her honour in the Forum by Cæsar in 46 B.C. and in A.D. 135 Hadrian erected a double temple in her honour the ruins of which may still be seen. When Paris (q.v.), the shepherd-prince of Troy, was appointed arbiter to judge which of the three goddesses (Juno, Pallas Athene, and Venus) was the most beautiful, and which should be awarded the golden apple, the prize of beauty, Venus, on appearing before him promised him as a bribe the most beautiful woman in Greece as his wife.
Idalian Aphroditè beautiful, Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells, With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder; from the violets her light foot Shone rosy-white, and o’er her rounded form Between the shadows of the vine-bunches Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes, The herald of her triumph drawing nigh Half-whisper’d in his ear, ‘I promise thee The fairest and most loving wife in Greece,’ She spoke and laugh’d: I shut my sight for fear: But when I look’d, Paris had raised his hand And I beheld great Herè’s angry eyes, As she withdrew into the golden cloud, And I was left alone within the bower; And from that time to this I am alone, And I shall be alone until I die.
Paris handed the apple to Venus.
Lucretius; The Princess; Lover’s Tale; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; The Cup.
VERAGUA.
my lord, I swear to you I heard his voice between The thunders in the black Veragua nights,
A region in the western part of the Isthmus of Panama. It was named by Columbus, who discovered it in 1502, and who attempted to found a settlement there, but was driven off by the Indians.
Columbus.
VERULAM.
The title of the barony conferred on Bacon by Elizabeth in 1618.
Palace of Art; The Princess.
VERULAM.
The Roman name for the city of St. Albans. It was identical with the fortress of Cassivellaunus destroyed by Cæsar in 54 B.C. and it was captured and burnt by Boädicea (q.v.) in 61 A.D.
Boädicea.
VESELAY.
A French town.
Becket.
VICISTI GALILÆE.
Eve after eve that haggard anchorite Would haunt the desolated fane, and there Gaze at the ruin, often mutter low ‘Vicisti Galilæe’; louder again, Spurning a shatter’d fragment of the God, ‘Vicisti Galilæe!’
Has reference to Julian, called the ‘Apostate,’ emperor of Rome for eighteen months from 361–363 A.D. On becoming emperor he renounced Christianity and endeavoured to restore paganism, and is said to have persecuted the Christians although there is no evidence to justify it. He was the author of several works, one of which was in opposition to Christianity. In an expedition against the Persians he was wounded, and as he fell from his horse in a fainting condition, he exclaimed: ‘Vicisti Galilæe’ (‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!’) He was carried to his tent and died the same evening, June 26, 363.
St. Telemachus.
VICTORIA.
Victoria,—since your Royal grace To one of less desert allows This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter’d nothing base;
Queen Victoria.
To the Queen.
VIENNA.
My blood an even tenor kept, Till on mine ear this message falls, That in Vienna’s fatal walls God’s finger touch’d him, and he slept.
Capital of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, situated on the river Danube.
In Memoriam.
VILLA GARCIA.
One of the men who tried to induce Cranmer to sign and declare the queen’s right to the throne, confess his faith before all hearers, and retract the Eucharistic doctrine. He also helped with Soto to take Cranmer to St. Mary’s Church, and with the choir helped to ‘strike’ up the Nunc Dimittus.
Queen Mary.
VINE.
A climbing plant which produces the grape, of the genus Vitis.
Queen Mary; Harold; The Cup; Ode to Memory; Mariana in the South; Œnone; Lotos-Eaters; Dream of Fair Women; Audley Court; Amphion; Aylmer’s Field; The Princess; Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington; Death of Œnone; The Daisy; The Islet; The Window; Romney’s Remorse; In Memoriam; Lancelot and Elaine; Voyage of Maeldune; Demeter and Persephone; To E. Fitzgerald; Tiresias.
VINE-AN’-THE-HOP.
An inn sign.
Promise of May.
VIOLET.
One of the staff of the College for women founded by the princess Ida.
The Princess.
VIOLET.
An herbaceous plant and flower of the genus Viola, of many species.
Adeline; Œnone; May Queen; Dream of Fair Women; Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; Aylmer’s Field; The Princess; To Rev. F. D. Maurice; In Memoriam; Maud; Lover’s Tale; Progress of Spring; Becket; The Falcon; Promise of May.
VIPER.
A European serpent whose bite is venomous.
The Princess; Merlin and Vivien.
VIRGIL.
= The Latin poet.
To Virgil; Poets and their Bibliographies; Queen Mary.
VITUS (Saint).
A Roman saint martyred under Diocletian, and the patron of dances.
The Foresters.
VIVIAN (Sir Walter).
Sir Walter Vivian—a gentleman supposed to be living at Maidstone Park, when in 1844 a festival of the Mechanics’ Institution was being held there, sir Walter himself being patron of the Institution. His house was adorned with articles collected from all quarters of the globe and all eras of history.
The Princess.
VIVIAN-PLACE.
The home of sir Walter Vivian.
The Princess.
VIVIEN.
A wanton at the court of king Arthur, who hated all the knights. She was an orphan, her father having been killed in battle, and her mother had died upon his corpse on the battlefield. She went to queen Guinevere to ask protection and the queen took her as one of her maids, where she tried without success to seduce the blameless king. With Merlin (q.v.) she had better success, for under pretence of great devotion, she followed him to the wild woods of Broceliande in Brittany.
A storm was coming, but the winds were still, And in the wild woods of Broceliande, Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old It look’d a tower of ivied masonwork At Merlin’s feet the wily Vivien lay.
Being pestered with her he confided to her the secret of his magic power, whereupon she confined him in a hollow tower from which there was no escape.
And then she follow’d Merlin all the way, Ev’n to the wild woods of Broceliande. For Merlin once had told her of a charm, The which if any wrought on any one With woven paces and with waving arms, The man so wrought on ever seem’d to lie Closed in the four walls of a hollow tower, From which was no escape for evermore;
Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Guinevere.
VOLTIGEUR.
Name of a horse.
Promise of May.
VULCAN.
In Italian mythology the god of fire, and of the art of forging, identified with the Greek Hephæstus. A temple was built in his honour at Rome, and he is supposed to have had a forge under mount Etna where he manufactured thunderbolts.
The Princess.
VULTURE.
A rapacious bird of prey of the genus Vultur, feeding largely on carrion.
You might have won; The Princess.
WALES.
Golden Year; Coming of Arthur; Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham; Harold.
WALHALLA.
In Scandinavian mythology the Hall of the Slain; the name of the residence for brave warriors slain in battle where they were conveyed by the warrior nymphs, the Valkyries (q.v.).
Harold.
WALNUT.
A tree and its fruit of the genus Jugians.
Miller’s Daughter; The Cup.
WALTER.
Married Miriam Erne, cousin of Muriel Erne. Before they were married Walter gave Miriam a ring supposed to be possessed with magic power.
then I bad the man engrave ‘From Walter’ on the ring, and send it.
The Ring.
WALTER.
The lover of Olivia, and to whom the oak-tree supposed to be gifted with speech gave an account of the doings of Olivia during his absence. In return for the information given he vowed that Olivia should wear on her wedding day a wreath of alternate leaf and acorn ball.
Talking Oak.
WALTER. WALTER LEA.
Son of sir Richard Lea, and brother of Maid Marian.
The Foresters.
WALTER. WALTER VIVIAN.
See Vivian.
WALTER MAP.
A twelfth century writer, probably born in Herefordshire. Was an intimate friend of archbishop Becket. After studying at the University of Paris, entered the service of Henry II, and acted as chaplain to the king during the wars brought about by the rebellion of Henry’s sons. Represented Henry at the court of Louis VII and attended the council at the Lateran at Rome in 1179.
For some time was parson at Westbury, where he came in conflict with the monks of the neighbouring Cistercian monastery. Canon of St. Paul’s and Chancellor of Lincoln, and in 1197 was appointed archdeacon of Oxford. He was the author of Latin Satirical Poems against the priesthood.
Becket.
WALTHAM.
the Holy Rood That bow’d to me at Waltham—
Waltham Holy Cross was founded by Tovi, standard-bearer to king Canute, and finished by king Harold in 1060. Gasquet in his Greater Abbeys of England says:
The first foundation at Waltham, and indeed the adoption of the name of ‘Holy Cross’ as the dedication, was brought about, according to legend, in a mysterious manner. In the reign of king Canute a pious smith, so runs the story, received a supernatural intimation that he would find a crucifix buried on the hill at Montacute, in Somerset. The parish priest was consulted and thought the matter should be examined into at once. At the head of a procession, praying and singing the Litanies, this priest accompanied the smith to the spot which had been pointed out to him in his dream and which, when on the ground, he fully recognized. Here, after much digging, the searchers came upon a wonderful crucifix carved in black marble. The discovery naturally made a great impression at the time, and indeed, the fact suggested the war cry of the English at the battle of Senlac: ‘Holy Cross, out, out!’ The lord of the manor of Montacute at the time of the discovery was named Tovi, a well-known soldier who was standard-bearer to king Canute. By his direction the crucifix was placed on an ornamented car, to which were harnessed twelve red oxen and twelve white cows, and the ultimate destination was left to their instincts, guided, of course, by Providence. The spot at which they ultimately stopped, and which was thus pointed out by fate as the place where the cross was to remain, was Waltham.... Here Tovi, with the king’s help, established two priests to act as guardians of the crucifix thus so strangely found at Montacute and providentially brought to Waltham. From the first this cross was believed to possess miraculous powers, and amongst other favours thought to have been obtained at its shrine was the cure of Harold, son of earl Godwin, from the palsy.
On his way to the battle of Senlac Harold came to Waltham to pay a visit to the shrine and offer up his devotions at the great Cross. His body, found on the field of battle, was by William ordered to be buried there, but at the request of his mother was transferred to Waltham and buried in the Abbey.
Harold.
WALWORTH.
Queen Mary.
WANSTEAD.
A town in Essex.
Queen Mary.
WARD.
Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, Whose Faith and Work were bells of full accord, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind, Most generous of all Ultramontanes, Ward,
William George Ward, to whom the poem is dedicated. A zealous advocate of the Tractarian movement, he carried it out in principle by joining in 1845 the Roman Catholic Church (1812–1882).
In Memoriam, William George Ward.
WAR-HAWK.
Battle of Brunanburh.
WASP.
A hymenopterous insect of the genus Vespa whose sting is very painful.
The Princess.
WATERFLAG.
Reeds, with long leaves, that wave like flags in the wind.
Morte d’Arthur; Passing of Arthur.
WATERFOWL.
A bird that frequents the water.
Merlin and Vivien.
WATER-GATE.
Storm at the Water-gate! storm at the Bailey-gate! storm,
Defence of Lucknow.
WATER-GNAT.
An insect whose early stages are passed in ponds, ditches, and shallow pools.
Leonine Elegiacs.
WATER-LILY.
A plant of the genus Nymphæa, with large floating leaves and beautiful flowers.
Lady of Shalott; The Princess.
WATERLOO.
= Battle of Waterloo.
Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Sisters (Evelyn and Edith).
WAYFARING-TREE.
A European shrub having large ovate leaves and small white flowers.
Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham.
WEASEL.
A small quadruped of the genus Mustela which feeds on birds and mice.
Aylmer’s Field; The Princess; Gareth and Lynette; Promise of May.
WEEDY SEAS.
= the Sargasso Sea, where masses of seaweed accumulate.
Columbus.
WELLS (Dean of).
Queen Mary.
WESSEX.
The kingdom of the West Saxons.
Harold.
WESTMINSTER (City of).
Harold; Becket.
WESTMINSTER (Bishop of).
See Thirlby.
WEST-SAXON-LAND.
Also the brethren, King and Atheling, Each in his glory, Went to his own in his own West-Saxon-land, Glad of the war.
Battle of Brunanburh.
WHALE.
A mammal of the order Cetacea, hunted chiefly for its oil and whalebone.
Harold.
WHARTON (Lady Anne).
See Anne, Anne Wharton.
WHITE (Sir Thomas).
See Thomas White.
WHITE HORSE.
and as now Men weed the white horse on the Berkshire hills To keep him bright and clean as heretofore,
See Berkshire.
Geraint and Enid.
WHITE ROSE.
Name of a horse.
The Brook.
WHITETHORN.
= the hawthorn.
Queen Mary.
WICKENTREE.
= the mountain-ash or rowan-tree.
The Foresters.
WICLIF.
John Wiclif, the ‘morning star of the Reformation.’ In 1361 appointed Master of Balliol College and four years afterwards was made Warden of Canterbury hall by archbishop Islip, but deprived by Islip’s successor Stephen Langton at the instigation of the monks, who were angry with him for exposing their corrupt lives. In 1374 he was preferred by the crown to the rectory of Lutterworth, and for openly preaching against the corruption of the Roman Church pope Gregory XI issued several bulls charging him with heresy and he was summoned to appear at St. Paul’s by the bishop of London, where he made such an able defence of himself that the council broke up without coming to a decision. The pope, however, issued a series of bulls to the bishops bidding them to arrest and imprison Wiclif, with a consequence that he was ordered to appear before a synod in the archbishop’s palace at Lambeth, which synod was prohibited by an order from the king’s mother. At this time the Roman Church was shaken by the election of a second pope, and Wiclif, taking advantage, struck at the constitution of the Roman Church and denounced in vigorous language its corruptness. He translated the Bible; organized a body of poor priests who went through the country preaching and spreading his doctrines. In 1380 he declared against the doctrine of transubstantiation, but his theses were condemned by a convocation at Oxford, who forbade him to teach them in the university. Two years later archbishop Courtenay condemned his opinions and his followers were arrested and compelled to recant. Wiclif withdrew to Lutterworth, where in spite of a stroke of paralysis he continued his literary activity. He died on December 31, 1384, and in 1428 his bones were dug up and burned, and his ashes thrown into the river Swift, close by the town where he had laboured so long (1320–1384).
Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham.
WILD-SWAN.
A large bird, measuring five feet in length and eight across its expanded wings. These birds fly in a wedgelike figure, following the course set them by their ‘leader.’
The leader wild-swan in among the stars Would clang it,
Poet’s Song; The Princess.
WILDWEED-FLOWER.
Day-Dream.
WILD WILL.
Name of a horse.
The Brook.
WILLER.
= the willow.
Promise of May.
WILLIAM.
With farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora.
Son of farmer Allan.
Dora.
WILLIAM. WILLIAM HOWARD.
Eldest son of Thomas Howard, second duke of Norfolk; governor of Calais 1552–53; and lord high admiral 1554–73; was created a peer for his defence of London against sir Thomas Wyatt in 1554.
Queen Mary.
WILLIAM THE FIRST. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
King of England, son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, whom he succeeded in 1035. In 1051 he visited the English Court, and received from Edward the Confessor a promise that he should succeed him as king, and in 1064, during earl Harold’s visit to the French Court he made him swear to help him to gain the English crown. On the death of Edward the Confessor Harold was proclaimed king, and in September 1066 William invaded England, and in the following month of the same year defeated Harold at the battle of Senlac, marched to London and was crowned in Westminster Abbey on December 25, 1066. He ruled with great tyranny, in consequence of which several insurrections took place, which were not quelled until William had devastated various parts of the country with fire and sword. He instituted the curfew and made a survey of all the lands in the kingdom known as the Domesday Book. In 1070 an insurrection broke out in the Isle of Ely under the leadership of Hereward the Wake. Eight years later he built the Tower of London, and having entered upon a war with Philip of France, he attacked and burned in 1087 the city of Mantes. As he rode through the burning town his horse stumbled, and he received an injury from which he died on September 9 of the same year. He was buried at Caen.
Queen Mary; Becket; Harold.
WILLIAM OF ORANGE.
A member of the noble house of Nassau, who inherited from his cousin the principality of Orange. Owing to the persecution of Protestants in the Netherlands took up arms in defence of his country’s freedom against the tyranny of Philip of Spain, and did not rest until he had freed it from the Spanish yoke. In 1580 Philip issued a ban against him, and set a price of 25,000 gold crowns upon his head, and on July 10 he was assassinated in his house at Delft by Balthazar Gerard (1533–1584).
Queen Mary.
WILLIAMS (Lord, of Thame).
Whereat Lord Williams gave a sudden cry: ‘Make short! make short!’ and so they lit the wood.
Son of sir John Williams. On the death of Edward VI he became a supporter of Mary’s cause, proclaimed her at Oxford, and raised some six thousand men in Northamptonshire to support her cause. He had the custody of the princess Elizabeth at Woodstock, until she was transferred to the keeping of sir Henry Bedingfield. As Sheriff of Oxfordshire he conveyed Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley to Oxford to await their trial, and was present at their execution. On account of the kindness he had shown to Elizabeth during the time she was in his custody, he was on her accession appointed to attend her to London in 1558, and soon afterwards was appointed Lord President of Wales. He died in 1559, at Ludlow Castle, and was buried in the parish church at Thame.
Queen Mary.
WILLIAM THE SILENT.
See William of Orange.
WILLOW.
A tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species.
Dying Swan; Lady of Shalott; Mariana in the South; Walking to the Mail; Amphion; In Memoriam; Merlin and the Gleam.
WILLOW-HERB.
A perennial herb with narrow willowlike leaves and rose-purple flowers.
Promise of May.
WILLOWS (James).
See James Willows.
WILLOW-WEED.
A plant which grows on marshy or moist soils.
The Brook.
WILLY.
An old grandmother of religious frame of mind, as her memory travels back, felt that the spirits of her dead sons, of whom Willy was one, were about her in the kitchen, and lost all sense of time and loss, in looking forward towards her own end with restful expectation. Willy was her eldest born, and the flower of her flock, and the news of his death had been brought to her by a little girl named Annie, to whom in reply, she said:—
I ought to have gone before him: I wonder he went so young, I cannot cry for him, Annie; I have not long to stay;
She could not weep for Willy, but looked forward to a happy reunion with her husband and all her children, as she said:
I, too, shall go in a minute.
Grandmother.
WILLY.
Son of the speaker in the poem. The woman when on her deathbed related to another woman, the story of her son’s crime. She blamed others for his sin:
But he lived with a lot of wild mates, and they never would let him be good;
He robbed the mail as an act of daring, and was hanged in chains. His mother stole his bones from the prison-yard and buried them in the night by the churchyard wall. She contrasts the actions of the lawyer with that of the Saviour.
For the lawyer is born but to murder—the Saviour lives but to bless.
Rizpah.
WILSON.
A schoolmaster.
Promise of May.
WINCHESTER (Bishop of).
Queen Mary.
WINCHESTER (Henry of).
See Henry of Winchester.
WIND-HOVER.
= the Kestrel, a bird of the hawk kind, so called from its hovering in the wind over one spot without fluttering its wings.
Aylmer’s Field.
WINDSOR.
Queen Mary.
WINNIE.
Minnie and Winnie Slept in a shell. Sleep, little ladies! And they slept well.
Minnie and Winnie.
WITAN.
= Witenagemot: the National Council of England in Anglo-Saxon times.
Harold.
WITCH-ELM.
The drooping broad-leaved elm of Scotland.
In Memoriam.
WODEN.
See Odin.
WOLF.
An animal of the genus Canis, allied to the dog.
Aylmer’s Field; The Princess; Boädicea; Maud; Coming of Arthur; Geraint and Enid; Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Pelleas and Ettarre; Northern Cobbler; Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham; Battle of Brunanburh; Forlorn; Queen Mary; Harold; Becket; The Cup; The Foresters.
WOLSELEY.
Field-Marshal viscount Wolseley, eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley. He served in the Burmese War, the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny—being present at the relief of Lucknow—in the Chinese war, and afterwards in Canada, and in 1873 was appointed in command of the punitive expedition to the Gold Coast against the Ashantis. On the outbreak of the rebellion in Egypt in 1882 he was appointed in command of the expedition, and after fighting several engagements with the enemy, advanced to Tel-el-Kebir, where on September 13, 1882, he completely routed the rebels under Arâbi Pasha (q.v.).
You saw the league-long rampart-fire Flare from Tel-el-Kebir Thro’ darkness, and the foe was driven, And Wolseley overthrew Arâbi, and the stars in heaven Paled, and the glory grew.
Ten years later he proceeded again to Egypt in command of an expedition for the relief of general Gordon at Khartoum, but arrived too late to effect its object. He died on March 25, 1913 (1833–1913).
Prologue to General Hamley.
WOODBINE.
= a climbing plant; the honeysuckle.
Promise of May; A Dirge; My life is full; Talking Oak; Day-Dream; In Memoriam; Spinster’s Sweet-Arts; Promise of May.
WOODCOCK.
A bird belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela, allied to the snipe.
Balin and Balan.
WOOD-DEVIL.
Balin and Balan.
WOOD-DOVE.
= the wild dove.
Balin and Balan.
WOOD-LOUSE.
= a terrestrial isopod of the family Oniscidæ.
The Window.
WOODPECKER.
A bird of the order Picariæ, with a strong chisel-like bill, with which it is able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees.
Kate; The Princess; Progress of Spring.
WOODSTOCK.
Was a royal residence when the Domesday Survey was made. It was the scene of Henry II’s courtship of Rosamond de Clifford. Queen Elizabeth was a prisoner here from May 1554 to May 1555, and after her accession to the throne visited it in 1556 and again in 1575. After the battle of Blenheim the manor of Woodstock was bestowed in perpetuity on John duke of Marlborough.
Queen Mary.
WORKS AND DAYS.
Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that sang the Works and Days,
The name of a poem by Hesiod, the Greek poet, the earliest didactic poem known to us in Greek.
To Virgil.
WORMS.
A city and capital of the province of Rhine-Hesse, on the river Rhine.
Queen Mary.
WREN.
A species of small bird belonging to the genus Troglodytes.
Golden Year; The Window; Marriage of Geraint.
WRIGGLESBY BECK.
Northern Farmer, New Style.
WRIT, HOLY.
See Holy Writ.
WULFNOTH.
Son of Godwin, and brother of king Harold.
Harold.
WYATT (Sir Thomas).
See Thomas Wyatt.
WYCLIFFE (John).
See Wiclif.
WYE.
A river in south Wales.
In Memoriam.
WYVERN.
An heraldic device in shape of a dragon with expanded wings.
Aylmer’s Field; Holy Grail.
XANTHUS.
A river of Troas.
Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse.
YABBOK BROOK.
Clear-headed Friend.
YAFFINGALE.
= the green woodpecker, noted for its loud laughing note.
And hear the garnet-headed yaffingale Mock them:
Last Tournament.
YEW. YEW-TREE.
An evergreen tree of the genus Taxus, allied to the pine.
Love and Death; Two Voices; Amphion; The Letters; Enoch Arden; The Princess; In Memoriam; Lancelot and Elaine; Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice; The Flight; Walking to the Mail; Holy Grail; Promise of May; The Foresters.
YGERNE.
Wife of Gorloïs, lord of Tintagel Castle. She was a beautiful woman, and at a festival of the Round Table Uther fell in love with her, and upon Ulfin revealing it to her she told her husband Gorloïs, who locked her up in the impregnable fortress of Tintagel, and gathering together an army, fought against Uther, but was defeated and slain. Ygerne then became the wife of Uther and subsequently the mother of king Arthur.
Coming of Arthur.
YNIOL.
An earl of decayed fortune and the father of Enid, wife of sir Geraint. He was ousted from his earldom by his nephew Edyrn, who attempted to win his daughter, but was unsuccessful. Edyrn, however, being overthrown in a tournament by sir Geraint, the earldom was restored to him.
Marriage of Geraint; Geraint and Enid.
YORK.
And York’s white rose as red as Lancaster’s
= Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Aylmer’s Field.
YORK (Archbishop).
Becket.
YORK (Archbishoprick).
Becket.
YORK (City of).
Queen Mary; Harold; The Foresters.
YORK (County of).
Edwin Morris; Aylmer’s Field.
ZERUBBABEL.
The Christian name of a man called Sanders (q.v.), who lived in Cornhill at the Sign of the Talbot.
Queen Mary.
ZEUS.
In Greek mythology the lord of Heaven, identified with the Italian Jupiter (q.v.).
Achilles over the Trench.
ZOROASTRIAN.
A follower of Zoroaster, the prophet of the ancient Persians.
Akbar’s Dream.
ZUINGLIUS.
The ghosts of Luther and Zuinglius fade Into the deathless hell which is their doom Before my star!
Has reference to Zuingli, the Swiss reformer.
Queen Mary.
ZURICH.
Cranmer. To Strasburg, Antwerp, Frankfort, Zurich, Worms, Geneva, Basle—our Bishops from their sees Or fled, they say, or flying—
A town in Switzerland, and capital of the Canton of Zurich.
Queen Mary.